AR glasses
Usually we are doing the same things: we eat, watch TV, play games, swim, listen to the music, make business, love and communicate. We need information all the time, new information. Today there are a lot of modern devices, that are helping us to be on the same wave with our friends and be informed at any time of the day. The problem is that we need more and more information. And the question is which device can help us.
The answer is in casual, but cool-looking device, that can adopt to the environment and to our requests. Our solution is glasses. We suggest to augment the life. How does it look like? You can already admit that our device looks like Microsoft Kinect, but 2 times smaller: only 10 cm in width and 2 cm in height. Small, but very smart, the device can combine all our favorite things – phone, to-do-list, wiki, facebook, etc. showing them in natural way.
Moreover, in order to get the AR glasses one does not need to buy them – AR add-on can be easily built-in.
Of course, we will continue to work on creating device much smaller, to fit esthetic tastes.
But our goal concerning this prototype was exactly to show the way how to use AR expirience with such build-on-glasses devices.
How does augmented reality glasses work. :
- AR glasses
Front side of Glasses-mounted device holds inside 2 VGA cameras and 1 IR light indicator to measure depth between objects. Data from left and right cameras gathered via Micro Processor, where it Augmented (placed another virtual layer) and send with interval to Pico-projector, interval 1 image for left eye, 1 black image, 1 image for right eye, 1 black image, etc…
Right now all augmented stuff processed by application on computer that connected by usb 2.0 to our device. This interface allow to send data, process it and send back in real time. Right now application that made all this magic things need more than 1 Gb of RAM. Of course this number should be optimized in our further development. And the goal is to put application and necessary memory for it into glasses-mounted device. Right now on board there is 128 Mb DDR2 memory and 1 Mb flash memory.
Pico-projector send gathered images data to LC prism, on the both sides of this prism (triangle on the scheme) are liquid crystals, that programmed to turn on black side, depend on which image goes to prism (for left or right eye) by this thing we create stereo image to show for user.
The main stimulus for us will be to create such technology and device that will be able to adapt to our lives.